Mobile digital reading program -short
Elimu’s Mobile Digital Reading Program targets learners in correctional facilities in Malindi who would otherwise have no access to education in these circumstances. We take e-textbooks and video tutorials to learners in a local prison (20–65-year-olds), Junior Remand Centre (10–17-year-olds) and girls’ rescue home (3-17-year-olds).
Being incarcerated, or held in a rescue home for an unknown period leaves many young people and adults, with a nagging despondency. As they battle with the tough circumstances surrounding their lives, they desperately need something to give them some hope for living.
Because of their backgrounds, many learners that we have worked with encounter education for the first time during their stay at these institutions, some are school drop outs, and most of them have never interacted with digital devises to study.